Ontario News

TORONTO — Strength in industrials and metals helped buoy Canada's main stock index amid energy weakness Wednesday, while U.S. stock markets were mixed after the country's central bank held interest rates steady.

TORONTO — BCE Inc. is cutting 1,300 positions, shutting or selling nine radio stations and closing two foreign bureaus as the company plans to "significantly adapt" how it delivers the news in the face of rising financial pressure.

TORONTO — Jamal Peters has returned home.

TORONTO — The opening year of legal single-game sports betting in Ontario was a profitable one. According to a report released Wednesday by IGaming Ontario, the province's regulated market generated total gaming revenues of just over $1.48 billion.

TORONTO — Multiple murderers Dellen Millard and Mark Smich had their convictions upheld on Wednesday for the killing of Tim Bosma, with Ontario's top court ruling they had been treated fairly at trial.

TORONTO — Oxford Properties Group says it's acquired the 330-room Rimrock Resort Hotel in Banff National Park. The real estate firm says hospitality group Accor has signed with Oxford to operate the hotel, effective immediately.

TORONTO — Ontario hospital workers are set to get additional wage increases over two years, the latest in a series of similar arbitration decisions after the province's wage-restraint law was found unconstitutional. An arbitrator has awarded 3.

Toronto saw a nearly 12 per cent increase in ballots cast during the advance voting period for the city's mayoral byelection compared to last year's municipal vote.

TORONTO — Nick Taylor's stunning victory at the RBC Canadian Open on Sunday took the vast majority of Proline players by surprise. According to the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp., Taylor took just 1.

TORONTO — Canaccord Genuity Group Inc. says a proposed management buyout of the firm will not go ahead after key conditions of the offer, including required regulatory approvals, were not received by the offer's expiry time.